Catwoman looks purr-fect in Batman Arkham City (preview)

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Rocksteady have been doing the slow tease for Batman Arkham City, revealing bits and pieces of the game. I got my first look at a spring Microsoft event in San Francisco. At GDC, they showed that the Riddler would actually make an appearance. That hyped up the game for me even more. At E3, I finally had some hands-on time with the game and saw a demo of a playable Catwoman. Now this week, they unveiled a playable Robin. (It’s Tim Drake if you’re wondering and he can be used in Challenge Rooms only.)

All of this is can drive fans, well, batty. I can almost hear them champing at the bit. To add to that fire, here are more details from what I saw at E3.

I’M BATMAN: First off, I played the demo that’s been shown at GDC and several places. Because Arkham City is so large, Batman needs a faster way to get around. To do that, he has a grapple boost where he shoots at ledges or the occasional gargoyle head, zooms up and uses that momentum to fly around the neighborhood. It reminds me of how Spider-Man got around in previous web slinger open-world games except this one is gorgeously detailed.

Rocksteady has all these little details embedded in the world like a Flying Graysons poster or Arkham Island (the site of the previous adventure) looming in the background. Eventually, I did the rounds of saving Catwoman from Two Face. The combat is still as good as I remembered it. In this one, Batman can battle even larger crowds of criminals and manage to hold his own. He also has some moves like a power dive, where he instantly knocks out an enemy from midair. He can also blind enemies by tossing powder into their eyes.

FUN TIMES WITH SELINA KYLE: When it comes to Catwoman, I did see the transition from the Dark Knight to his sometime ally. Batman sees a few cats loitering around a rooftop. When he drops down to investigate, Catwoman appears and she takes over.

Being Selina Kyle is a different experience from the Bats. For one, she has superhuman jumping abilities. Whereas Batman can leap a foot or two of the ground, Catwoman can jump at least 10 feet in the air. She also has the ability to climb walls and even use her whip Indiana Jones style to cross gaps and get to other areas.

In terms of combat, Catwoman’s fighting style looks like it’s built on speed. She has bolas, which I assume act like her version of the Batarang. She can pounce attack foes from above, and when she’s really in the thick of it, Catwoman can bust out her whip and slap guys across the face just to give her a little breathing room in the brawls. one thing that Kyle and Batman share in common is the combination punches they can deliver.

STEALTH IS KEY FOR CATWOMAN: It’s good to know that she can hold her own in a fight (You can use Kyle in the Challenge Rooms.), but in the demo, it was all about how Kyle could move stealthily. She’s on a mission to grab some items that the warden confiscated from the supervillains when he moved them to Arkham City. One of those things is Poison Ivy’s orchid.

In a deal among thieves, Ivy agrees to help Catwoman by burrowing a plant beneath the safe where the criminals’ items are kept. Kyle breaks in and that’s where she has to use her guile to defeat the guards one by one.

Like Batman’s detective vision, Catwoman has her own gadget that lets her see the heat signatures of the guards. It also highlights the mission objectives. To open the safe, she’ll have to steal three keycards from the men patrolling the area.

That’s where Rocksteady shows off that risque slide that allows her to get into small passageways rather quickly and easily. She can also crawl upside down along the ceiling. Using these abilities, she’ll have to watch the path of each guard. She can trail one and wait until he gets to a dark corner of the level. That’s when she can lower herself on her whip and choke the guy out with her feet. (What can I say? The girl is dexterous or is that pedexterous?)

Relying on that same ceiling climbing technique, she can also drop down on the foes guarding the vault door and do a double takedown. Eventually, the last guard gets alerted when he sees the bodies on the ground. That’s when Catwoman shows off her ground game. We all know she can fight, but Catwoman can also sneak and take cover around corners. And when it comes one guard against a supervillain such as herself, it isn’t a hard matchup to win.

A DEAL BREAKER: Minor Spoiler here: Catwoman eventually takes all the cards and breaks into the vault. She has the opportunity to grab Ivy’s orchid, but she just breaks it. (Hey, she’s Catwoman. That’s what she does. She has no regard for people’s stuff.) She ends up grabbing what she really wanted — a suitcase.

Lastly, there was one more character reveal at E3. It was another one of Batman’s more popular foes — the Penguin. He looks more like Danny Devito’s character inBatman Returns, except he’s more grotesque in some ways. His monocole looks like the end of a bottle shoved into his left eye. He has these circular discs attached to his throat. Like other Rocksteady character designs, the Penguin stands out. It’ll be interesting to see what role he plays when the game is release in October on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

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i think they did a good job on the costums on batman and on catwoman its cool that catwoman has a sexy side in the game like when she fights if you look at the trailer shes kisss a guy and then but her leg up then kicks him. cool right thankyou rockstandy

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